Daily Archives: July 27, 2005

Just Stuff

Star Wars: Battlefront

So, if anyone feels like buying me something, just because… here’s something that would do nicely.

The Mac version of Star Wars: Battlefront is now shipping. For those not familiar with this game.. here’s a brief description from Aspyr’s site.

Star Wars Battlefront™ is an action/shooter game that gives fans and gamers the opportunity to re-live and participate in all of the classic Star Wars battles like never before. Players can select one of a number of different soldier types, jump into any vehicle, man any turret on the battlefront and conquer the galaxy planet-by-planet online with their friends or offline in a variety of single-player modes. Single player modes include “Instant Action,” “Galactic Conquest” and the story-based “Historical Campaigns” mode that lets gamers experience all of the epic battles from Episodes I-VI, fighting from the perspective of each of the four factions within the game

In other words.. one of the best first (or 3rd) person shooters out there! you can play either ‘side’ in the battle, choose from lots of different weapons.. and blow the snot out of the other guy! what more could you want?

If you want a second idea… the Lego Star Wars game is available for Pre-order

Site Stuff, Tech

Hacking Movable Type

So my copy finally arrived today.. and I’ve only had a chance to read the forward, the table of contents, and part of chapter 1 (that darn job thing…keeps getting in the way)

So far, I think it’ll be a good resource, I’ve already learned somethings I didn’t know about configuring a MT install.. The important thing, is that with the exception of some files changing names, it looks like most of the information in the book will continue to apply even under MT 3.2… I’ll post a ‘real’ review when I finish reading the book.

Kael's Adventures

Swim Lessons

Kael started another batch of swim lessons on Monday. And he’s having a blast so far.. He’s jumping into the pool, kicking, splashing, floating.. and generally having way more fun then he had last time around…although.. to be fair.. he got sick after the first day of the last session..and then he missed some more time to go see Thomas the Tank Engine…

We think that instead of skipping a huge chunk of time, like we did between his lessons last year, and the first batch this year.. we’re going to try and keep him going every couple of months…he seems to do better when he hasn’t been out of the water for almost a year..